Apple Blasted For Not Blocking Stolen SSL Certificates
A security researcher blasted Apple for what he called “foot dragging” over the DigiNotar certificate fiasco, and urged the company to act fast to update Mac OS X to protect users. “We’re looking at...
View ArticleAre SSL/TLS Security Protocols At Risk?
Some researchers are getting ready to showcase an attack against SSL/TLS that can compromise secure communications between most web sites and browsers.
View ArticleSSL To Suffer More Attacks
The creator of Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology has warned that the system remains as insecure as it was last month when hackers managed to break its security.
View ArticleHas SSL And TSL Been Cracked?
Bernstein has discovered cracks in TLS and SSL when they’re combined with another encryption scheme known as RC4. The system invented in 1987 is one of the most popular and most widely recommended...
View ArticleGoogle To Upgrade It’s SSL Certificate
He pointed out some of the problems that the change might trigger, and pointed to a FAQ addressing certificate changes, as well as instructions for developers on how to adapt to certificate changes.
View ArticleIs Android Using The Right Cipher?
Google engineers were simply implementing what Java’s Reference Implementation (RI 6) were recommending.
View ArticleDoes An Android App Fight Cyber Threats With A.I.?
Last year, Trend Micro warned that Google's Android mobile operating system is so beset by cyber criminals creating malicious apps that the malware was on track to hit the million mark before the end...
View ArticleCloudflare May Go Keyless SSL Encryption
Meanwhile some organisations have created their own forks of SSL, including the recently relaunched LibreSSL and Google's in-house boring SSL.
View ArticleCyber criminals Remotely Erasing Smartphone Data
Pen Test Partners' digital forensics expert, Ken Munro, said it is common practice to immediately put devices that are seized as evidence into a radio-frequency shielded bag to prevent any signals...
View ArticleCan Mobile Phone Calls Be Hacked?
The firm published a blog post following the high-profile attack on Hacking Team when it first became concerned about SS7.
View ArticleCloudFlare To Launch Service To Protect Against Against DDoS Attacks
Prince said that Unmetered Mitigation has the power to render DDoS an activist tool of the past.
View ArticleHacker Heads To Prison For DDoS Attack Against Blizzard
Prosecutors recommend a ten-month prison sentence while the defense unsuccessfully argued that Mateias -- who has been in a federal lock-up since November 20 -- should be released immediately so he may...
View ArticleA DoS Bug In FireFox Causing Browser To Crash On Mac
ZDNet, which carried out its own tests, found that the DoS bug worked against the latest Firefox stable release and also Firefox Developer and Nightly editions. Mozilla's iOS and Android apps, which...
View ArticleCloudflare Opens DNS Services To Smartphones
Finally, there's freedom. In countries where internet access is blocked at some level, the use of alternative DNS configurations has let people get around the ban and access restricted content, perhaps...
View ArticleIs A Worldwide DNS Hi-Jacking Being Planned
Once hackers can manipulate DNS records, they can redirect traffic to their own infrastructure, leaving users open to man-in-the-middle attacks. As the targets elsewhere in the world seem to be...
View ArticleCloudflare Goes With WarpVPN
Warp is free - but there is an optional service, Warp+ which adds Cloudflare's Argo tech from its other products to offer faster speeds and more stable connections.
View ArticleDid A Massive DDoS Attack Strike Wikipedia Last Week
That's as detailed as the post goes, although the German Wikipedia Twitter account confirmed that it was "paralysed by a massive and very broad DDoS hit". That's how Google Translate frames it anyway,...
View ArticleDomain Registry Site Web.Com Breached
It's unclear how many customers have been affected by the hack, though as per Krebs On Security, Network Solutions is the world's fifth-largest domain name registrar with almost seven million domains,...
View ArticleWill Microsoft Support DoH Next Year
Microsoft has confirmed that, at launch, it will turn on encryption automatically in Windows if the browser DNS resolver being used supports it. However, it will not force anyone to change their DNS...
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